MAGNIFICENCE by Lydia Millet (2012) ~ SIGNED ~ First Edition, First Printing

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Signed , Brand New, First Edition, First Printing, Hardcover/Dust Jacket, List: $25.95 Magnificence National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist for Fiction by Lydia Millet Her third novel, My Happy Life , won the 2003 PEN-USA Award for Fiction. Her fifth novel, Oh Pure and Radiant Heart was short-listed for the 2007 Arthur C. Clarke Award. Her 2009 collection of short stories entitled Love in Infant Monkeys was one of three finalists for the Pulitzer Prize. Her 2011 novel Ghost Lights , a New York Times Notable Book, was the second in a cycle of novels that began with How the Dead Dream in 2008. Magnificence (2012) completes the cycle. First Edition, First Printing, hand SIGNED by the author, in my presence, to full title page. No inscription; signature only. From the National Book Critics Circle Award 2012 Finalists' Reading in New York City on February 27, 2013. BONUSES: The complete National Book Critics Circle Award 2012 Finalists' Reading program (photo #10) + a copy of three book reviews are included. Please only bid if you will pay within five days of auction's end. All domestic sales of $25 or more will be wrapped and shipped in a box. Shipping & Handling for USPS Media Mail is $3.95 (includes Delivery C onfirmation) Shipping & Handling for USPS Priority Mail Flat Rate envelope is $6.95 (includes Delivery Confirmation) Shipping & Handling for USPS Priority Mail International Flat Rate envelope is $25.95 I provide the highest quality author signed, first edition books. 100% authentic guaranteed - This is my COA "Certificate of Authenticity". I won't sell any signed book that I'm not 100% sure is hand signed by the author. I attended this National Book Critics Circle Awards Finalists' Reading Publishing Year 2012 event at The New School in New York City on February 27, 2013. I'm not happy unless you are! Please email any questions. Thanks! Book Description Publication Date: November 5, 2012 A woman embarks on a dazzling new phase in her life after inheriting a sprawling mansion and its vast collection of taxidermy. Pulitzer Prize finalist Lydia Millet is "one of the most acclaimed novelists of her generation" (Scott Timberg, Los Angeles Times ). Salon praised her for writing that is "always flawlessly beautiful, reaching for an experience that precedes language itself." The Village Voice added, "If Kurt Vonnegut were still alive, he would be extremely jealous."This stunning new novel presents Susan Lindley, a woman adrift after her husband’s death and the dissolution of her family. Embarking on a new phase in her life after inheriting her uncle’s sprawling mansion and its vast collection of taxidermy, Susan decides to restore the neglected, moth-eaten animal mounts, tending to “the fur and feathers, the beaks, the bones and shimmering tails.” Meanwhile an equally derelict human menagerie—including an unfaithful husband and a chorus of eccentric old women—joins her in residence.In a setting both wondrous and absurd, Susan defends her legacy from freeloading relatives and explores the mansion’s unknown spaces. Funny and heartbreaking, Magnificence explores evolution and extinction, children and parenthood, loss and revelation. The result is the rapturous final act to the critically acclaimed cycle. “ [Magnificence is] elegant, darkly comic…with overtones variously of Muriel Spark, Edward Gorey and J. G. Ballard, full of contemporary wit and devilish fateful turns for her characters, and then also to knit together into a tapestry of vast implication and ethical urgency, something as large as any writer could attempt: a kind of allegorical elegy for life on a dying planet. Ours, that is.” (Jonathan Lethem - The Guardian ) “Lydia Millet's Magnificence is a novel of ideas. I mean that as a high compliment, for the ideas Millet invokes are the only ones that matter: life, death, love, longing, extinction, the ongoing existen... read more

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